Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2006
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American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #1.73; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.341
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
A sequence of three Chandra X-ray Observatory High Resolution Camera images taken over a span of five years reveals arc-second-scale displacement of RX J0822--4300, the stellar remnant near the center of the Puppis A supernova remnant. We measure its proper motion to be 0.16±0.02 arcsec yr-1 toward the west-southwest. At a distance of 2 kpc, this corresponds to a transverse space velocity of 1500 km s-1. This is the first case of a compact X-ray source with a directly measured proper motion. The space velocity is consistent with the explosion center inferred from proper motions of the oxygen-rich optical filaments, and confirms the idea that Puppis A resulted from an asymmetric explosion accompanied by a kick that imparted on the order of 3x1049 ergs of kinetic energy (some 3 percent of the supernova kinetic energy) to the stellar remnant. We will summarize this measurement and discuss possible mechanisms for producing such a violent kick.
This research has been supported by NASA grant GO4-5062X.
Petre Robert
Winkler Frank P.
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